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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2973 

To require the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

to submit annual reports regarding certain demographic information on 

aliens arrested. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 23, 2019 

Mr. BROOKS of Alabama (for himself, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, 

and Mr. GOSAR) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To require the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement to submit annual reports regarding certain 

demographic information on aliens arrested. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arrest Statistics Re5 porting Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REPORTING OF INFORMATION ON ARRESTEES. 

7 The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs En8 forcement shall, beginning on the date that is 1 year after 

9 the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 


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1 publish and make publicly available on the internet a re2 port that includes, for each person arrested during the 

3 year preceding the date of the report and regarding whom 

4 a request was submitted to the Law Enforcement Support 

5 Center authorized under section 236(d) of the Immigra6 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(d)) or any poten7 tial matches forwarded under the information sharing pro8 gram between the Department of Justice and the Depart9 ment of Homeland Security (formerly known as ‘‘Secure 

10 Communities’’), the following information, when available: 

11 (1) The immigration status of the person. 

12 (2) The nationality of the person. 

13 (3) The offense for which the person was ar14 rested, represented by the appropriate Uniform 

15 Crime Reporting offense code. 

16 SEC. 3. REPORTING BY FBI DIRECTOR. 

17 The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 

18 shall revise the Uniform Crime Reports to require that 

19 each report pertaining to an arrest shall include the infor20 mation about the arrest published under section 2, and 

21 the Director shall also publish a summary of the data 

22 which shall include— 

23 (1) a table containing the Uniform Crime Re24 porting offense codes and the corresponding occur25 rences for each immigration status category; and 


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1 (2) a table containing the Uniform Crime Re2 porting offense codes and the corresponding occur3 rences for each nationality. 

4 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

5 In this Act: 

6 (1) The term ‘‘immigration status’’ includes 

7 status as— 

8 (A) a United States citizen or national; 

9 (B) a lawful permanent resident of the 

10 United States; 

11 (C) a nonimmigrant alien lawfully present 

12 in the United States; or 

13 (D) an alien not lawfully present in the 

14 United States. 

15 (2) The term ‘‘Uniform Crime Reports’’ means 

16 the reports authorized under section 534 of title 28, 

17 United States Code, and administered by the Fed18 eral Bureau of Investigation which compiles nation19 wide criminal statistics for use in law enforcement 

20 administration, operation, and management and to 

21 assess the nature and type of crime in the United 

22 States. 

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